'Hawaii Five-0': Dennis Miller hits the Airwaves From the Waves

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During his Feb. 8 “Miller Time” appearance on Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor,” former “Saturday Night Live” star and standup comedian Dennis Miller, now host of his own nationally syndicated radio talk show, got some grief from host Bill O’Reilly because Miller was jetting off to the Aloha State to film an episode of CBS’ “Hawaii Five-0” without him.

Along with Miller’s regular appearances on the “Factor,” he and O’Reilly have been partners for the “Bolder & Fresher Tour,” a traveling stage show– most recently in Santa Barbara, Calif. on Saturday, Feb. 25 — that is a follow up to the “Bold & Fresh Tour” that O’Reilly did with former Fox News personality Glenn Beck.

The day after speaking to O’Reilly, Miller was set to fly to Hawaii to shoot his role in the Monday, Feb. 27, episode, called “Lekio” (Hawaiian for “radio”), playing radio talk-show host Bobby Raines, who suffers an explosive mishap while broadcasting from a luxury yacht.

But you wouldn’t know that if you heard what Miller told O’Reilly when the “Factor” host complained about being left out.

“You told me once,” said Miller, “you would never show up in a grass skirt, and that’s my part. I’m an island transvestite, so I didn’t think you’d want to come.”

“I was only there about 36 hours,” Miller tells Zap2it when asked about what he said to O’Reilly. “Bill seemed jealous. I didn’t want to make out that I was going over there to do a Michener novel. It was just in and out.

“I play a DJ, so maybe somebody there liked me, because I didn’t solicit it. They had a part for a talk-radio show host, and maybe the one guy said he listened to my show and that’s that.”

Although Raines is doing his show from a boat, it’s not exactly pirate radio.

“My thing is on a yacht,” says Miller, “but it didn’t seem that I was playing old Yardbird tunes. It wasn’t that kind of pirate radio It was more Limbaugh-ian.”